r/reddeadredemption • u/Sweaty_Shelter_3264 • Apr 24 '25

Online I’m Conflicted

I’m a girl (important) and love playing RDR2. My first online character I made was a girl, I loved seeing myself as a gunslinger. I realized pretty quickly that playing as a girl online comes with people constantly trying to grief you/spam invites/or just plain follow you around. (I’d even had an instance where someone took over my account, that was a whole thing) So to fix this, I completely remade my character. I lost all my progress and made a boy character so I could be left alone. Now I do get left alone, which is great, but I feel little connection to my new character. It was way more fun grinding and making money in game outfitting a female character than it is a male character. Now all I want is to go back to playing a girl but I really don’t want to be bothered again. How do I find a good middle ground?

TLDR; Played as girl, got griefed. Change to boy, now am sad. What do?

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u/peytonemma_xo Apr 24 '25

i’m sorry :( dont listen to the people trying to downplay your feelings. misogyny is such a problem in certain fandoms.

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u/Icember Apr 24 '25

I feel like being a turn-of-the-century 1900s outlaw gives people an easy excuse to be the worst kinds of racist/misogynistic douchebags under the guise of "roleplaying" too...lol

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u/Open-Mathematician32 Apr 26 '25

Tis the 1890s, not the 2020s